A lot of people think that as they get older and more experienced their employer will value them more. While that’s the case in some circumstances, the truth is that a lot of employers try to push out older employees for one reason or another. These employers might...
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Small employers are not exempt from CARES Act Leave
Many Kentucky employers are small employers with less than 50 employees. During this unprecedented time of COVID-19 in our community it has been difficult to understand the various federal leave policies. The CARES Act put into place emergency leave for employees who...
Kentucky Coronavirus Employment FAQ’s
As the World deals with the novel Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19), Kentucky employers and employees are facing an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Our goal with this post is to provide basic information on the issues affecting businesses and employees in the...
Overtime in Kentucky, Non-basketball edition
This is not a post about Kentucky basketball. I'm also not going to keep writing the words "Kentucky basketball" just to boost the google searches for this post. Kentucky basketball deserves better than that. No, this post is about the payment of overtime wages in...
Non-Compete and non-solicitation agreements in Kentucky
At our firm, we get a lot of questions about non-competition and non-solicitation agreements (also commonly referred to as "restrictive covenants"), so we thought it would be a good idea to provide a general overview of some of the issues involved in enforcing them in...
Kentucky companies must be represented by counsel at unemployment hearings
In an opinion published on April 26, 2019, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that KRS 341.470(3), the statute allowing corporate or partnership employers to appear pro se through non-attorney representatives at unemployment insurance benefit proceedings, violates...
Federal Judge Rules UK Time and Attendance Policy Violates FMLA
In the world of employment law, summary judgments for plaintiffs are exceedingly rare. For you non-lawyers (no shame), judges can enter summary judgments when a party has shown that there are no issues of material facts left to decide, and therefore a jury is not...